Paintball guns go high-tech

SITE Manufacturing (Redding, Calif.) has taken information attained during more than 23 years of fabricating hi-tech carbon composite components, such as telescope housings and applied it to sport of paintball. "One year around Christmas, we decided we wanted to do something else," said SITE plant manager Dave Weir. " We spent next three months scheming and developing an all-carbon-fiber composite paintball gun barrel." The product was ST!FFI, a tournament-quality barrel with a stepped bore (0.002 larger at 5 inches) available in one of a selection of bore sizes in 10-, 12-, 14- or 16-inch (254 mm, 305 mm, 356 mm or 406 mm) lengths or as part of a ST!FFI SW!TCH kit (with nylon carrying case) containing a 0.695-inch bore barrel with four exchangeable sizing breeches (0.685 to 0.691 inch, in 0.002-inch intervals) used to adjust barrel to minor variations in available paintball ammo.

Ingenious Paintball Gun Exchange Program

Real Action Paintball has offered an assortment of paintball markers that are intended to provide customer an experience that is as real as possible. The foundation of this operation is RAP4, initial paintball marker planned like a real assault rifle, military’s M4. Real Action Paintball proclaimed an additional trade first: an equipment trade-in program.

“Real Action Paintball will take any paintball markers, air soft guns, or bb guns in trade,” said KT Tran, owner and operator of Real Action Paintball. “They don’t even need to be working for customer to earn $150 in credit.” The credit, says Mr. Tran, can be put towards purchase of a RAP4 Paintball Gun, T68 Paintball Gun, or a T16 Paintball Gun.